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"maff" |
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03 Oct 2003 05:05:41 AM |
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OT: Opposition in Chechen Vote Seen as Mainly Underground |
Opposition in Chechen Vote Seen as Mainly Underground
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/03/international/europe/03CHEC.html
By SETH MYDANS
In Chechnya, the presidential election is being conducted with the
subtlety of a military campaign. There have been threats, violence,
press censorship and intimidation of candidates.
Chechnya
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Behind the official line
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,1053545,00.html
A meeting with US journalists revealed much about Vladimir Putin's
thoughts on democracy. Nick Paton Walsh explains
Wednesday October 1, 2003
For a president whose daily antics lead and fill news bulletins on all
the (state-controlled) television channels, Vladimir Putin is
surprisingly media shy.
Interviews are almost never given to the national media, with
carefully-managed speeches taking their place. Order is key, and
foreign journalists only get the chance to conduct an interview before
Mr Putin visits their country.
Russia
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Vladimir Putin
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| User: "maff" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Opposition in Chechen Vote Seen as Mainly Underground |
03 Oct 2003 04:25:34 PM |
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Opposition in Chechen Vote Seen as Mainly Underground
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/03/international/europe/03CHEC.html
By SETH MYDANS
In Chechnya, the presidential election is being conducted with the
subtlety of a military campaign. There have been threats, violence,
press censorship and intimidation of candidates.
Chechnya
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&cat=&q=Chechnya&sa=N&tab=dn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=Chechnya&sa=N&tab=nw
http://groups.google.com/groups?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=Chechnya&sa=N&tab=wg
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=Chechnya&sa=N&tab=gd&cat=gwd%2FTop
Profits of Doom
http://www.time.com/time/europe/html/031006/profits.html
A Russian special ops commander says the Chechen war is really being
fought for oil, arms and money
By YURI ZARAKHOVICH | Moscow
Posted Sunday, September 28, 2003; 12.48BST
Andrei Petrov (not this soldier's real name) knew he'd never have a
better chance than this. It was a scorching August day in 1999 and
Petrov — commander of a Russian special-ops team in Dagestan, a
Russian republic bordering Chechnya — had Chechen warlord Shamil
Basayev in his sights. Earlier that month, Basayev had led an invasion
of Dagestan and called upon local separatists to help in the fight
against Russia. With a simple squeeze of his finger, Petrov could take
out Basayev, the Chechens' most effective guerrilla general and the
man responsible for some of the conflict's worst terrorist attacks.
But Petrov says he received the following order over his
walkie-talkie: "Hold your fire."
No Way Out?
http://www.time.com/time/europe/html/031006/story.html
Putin hopes to declare victory in Chechnya — then leave. A visit to
Grozny shows why it won't be easy
By PAUL QUINN-JUDGE | Grozny
Posted Sunday, September 28, 2003; 12.48BST
At first light, Russian troops in combat gear move slowly along one of
Grozny's ruined main streets, past makeshift crosses erected to their
fallen comrades. Hugging the edge of the road to avoid snipers, they
peer into the bushes, looking for radio-controlled mines and booby
traps laid overnight by Chechen separatists. The soldiers — young
conscripts fresh from the provinces and professionals here for the
money — are tense, but they barely glance at most Chechens passing by.
And the Chechens ignore them. The Russian minesweepers don't find any
mines this morning, and at a concrete-and-barbed-wire checkpoint,
Russian soldiers inspecting cars and buses don't catch any rebels.
They occasionally rough up the drivers and often demand bribes — and
the guerrillas know very well how this game is played. "Stick some
money out the window and they don't check anything," says one
self-described mujahid. Ordinary residents like Zinaida, a clerical
worker with a teenage son, are just happy to see another dawn. "Night
is our hell," she says, a time when soldiers descend on homes, beat
down doors and take away young men suspected of rebel activities. Most
are never seen again.
http://forums.delphiforums.com/deconland/messages?msg=951.17
Behind the official line
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,1053545,00.html
A meeting with US journalists revealed much about Vladimir Putin's
thoughts on democracy. Nick Paton Walsh explains
Wednesday October 1, 2003
For a president whose daily antics lead and fill news bulletins on all
the (state-controlled) television channels, Vladimir Putin is
surprisingly media shy.
Interviews are almost never given to the national media, with
carefully-managed speeches taking their place. Order is key, and
foreign journalists only get the chance to conduct an interview before
Mr Putin visits their country.
Russia
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&cat=&q=Russia&sa=N&tab=dn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=Russia&sa=N&tab=nw
http://groups.google.com/groups?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=Russia&sa=N&tab=wg
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=Russia&sa=N&tab=gd&cat=gwd%2FTop
Vladimir Putin
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=+%22Vladimir+Putin%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=+%22Vladimir+Putin%22&sa=N&tab=nw
http://groups.google.com/groups?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=+%22Vladimir+Putin%22&sa=N&tab=wg
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&q=+%22Vladimir+Putin%22&sa=N&tab=gd&cat=gwd%2FTop
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